I'm doing OK in life. It took a long time for me to stop running away from things because I didn't trust anyone for a long time. I'm still cynical and paranoid, but I have a steady government job, a solid early retirement plan, and a supportive wife that loves me.
People are surprised I didn't amount to more in life, but I live my life 100% on my terms, and that's what's important to me.
Sometimes I like to imagine what the US would look like if we took a fraction of the trillions of dollars we wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan and used them to help our southern neighbors develop and modernize. Happy and content people don't risk their lives to cross the jungle.
It's a bit late for that these days, what with all the climate change and all that. Migration (in likely huge numbers) is coming and likely already largely underway around the world. There's gonna be more and more places humans simply cannot physically survive anymore and that alone will drive people to move elsewhere. This of course will likely lead to violence, because that's what far too many humans do when other humans try to "muscle in on their territory". It's a sad fact that unless most of the human race grows up and starts acting like adults for a change, we're likely in for war pretty much everywhere soon enough.
That would be a rough ride for your health. I remember back when Adam Richman was doing the original run of Man vs Food and he was looking like death towards the end.
I mean, that wasn't a show about "food" or "restaurants" it was about gluttonous, over-the top food "challenges". Unless you were doing an equally extreme amount of work to counteract those meals, a season would absolutely destroy someone.
I see all the pearl clutching comments about how bad eating at restaurants is (former restaurant chef, I'm extremely biased and refused to be moved), but an over the top entree coming in at 1500 calories isn't even close to a 7 pound burrito IMO.
My wife wears her rings, but I don't find jewelry comfortable, so I never wear mine. I wonder how many snoopers think we're having an affair when we go out.
From my collection of Soviet-era Russian fiction I've accrued over the decades. One of these days I'll get to reading it instead of dusting it off every few months.
I got a Steam Deck last year and it really opened my eyes to how far along gaming on Linux has come. Even a crash-riddled game like Fallout: New Vegas runs more smoothly than it ever did in Windows.
Yeah, I"m planning on getting one as well - the switch has made me realize how great having "real" games on a portable platform is - just waiting for a hardware refresh.
Protondb says that 99% of my games will run OK on Linux now, so when I build out a PC later this year, I think I'll finally make the leap to Linux on the desktop. I have to use Win 11 at work and I find it frustrating.
A very high percentage of my game collection works on proton (and a decent amount natively even) but my problem is that last couple of percent tends to be big games with the most play time which don't work because of anti cheat instead of technical reasons :/.
I moved to Linux (Manjaro KDE) as my primary desktop OS about 3 years ago and it's been great. I'm a casual gamer and all of my Steam games run good on Linux. I run Windows 10 in a VM that I use occasionally for work stuff using MS Remote Desktop.
Go for it. I'm sure it depends on the games that you play, but for me, everything "just works" under Steam and Linux. I'm mostly 4G or builder-games, with some RPG like Baldur's Gate.
Work does use Microsoft stuff, and I do work from home a lot. However, everything is in the cloud now, which works just fine from Linux and Vivaldi or Firefox.
tl;dr: When I put together my new machine about 1-1/2 years ago, there was no longer a Windows partition. Haven't missed it...
We took some goofy career test in high school, and my top choices were 1) Lighthouse Keeper 2) Mortician and 3) Librarian. Wound up becoming a librarian for the past 24 years. So I guess the test was accurate.
Around 20 years ago, I discovered the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and realized there were like-minded people to me. Got fixed in my early 20s.
I'm happy to see the antinatalist message hitting so many media outlets in recent years! My parents only had me due to boredom and social pressure, so it's thrilling to see people open their eyes to other options.
I'm doing OK in life. It took a long time for me to stop running away from things because I didn't trust anyone for a long time. I'm still cynical and paranoid, but I have a steady government job, a solid early retirement plan, and a supportive wife that loves me.
People are surprised I didn't amount to more in life, but I live my life 100% on my terms, and that's what's important to me.
Not rich, not poor, but I enjoy life in general.